Public Coffee House Sudden near Rochdale

This building is about to be erected at Sudden, which is a suburb of Rochdale, situated by the high road to Manchester and is intended to supersede the small building now in use as a cocoa room. The ground floor internal arrangements may be seen from the accompanying plans, the floors of the public rooms being tiled. On the first floor, over the front portion of the public rooms, there is a large room which may be used for meetings or lectures and over the back part is the women's room. Above the kitchen and smoking room there is a reading room and small store room. On the second floor there are three large bedrooms and six small cubicles with linen closets etc. There is a lavatory on each floor, wc's to ground and first floors and a bathroom on the second floor. The whole of the woodwork is to be executed with selected American pitch pine, and the roofs covered with grey slates. The premises will cost upwards of £2000, the whole of which will be defrayed by Mrs Kemp of Beechwood, Rochdale. Mr Thomas Wilkinson of Rochdale is the contractor for the building which has been designed by Mr Butterworth of Rochdale. [British Architect 27 February 1880 Page 102]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 15 November 1879 Page 9 (Contracts)
Reference    British Architect 27 February 1880 Page 102 and illustration - Three storey building, half-timbered, architect E Simpson Butterworth